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“For me, prison is not where you are going, it's what you are leaving,” Broussard said in a previous interview. “I’m leaving a frail mom, a close member of my family just got cancer and my granddaughter is going to be giving birth in June. Those are things I should be at.”

The 64-year-old Democrat pleaded guilty last year to charges related to bribery and payroll fraud.

“Where I’m going is a facility,” Broussard said. “It's gonna be military like, and they will have systems, and I can adapt to that, but it's what you are missing in the lives of the people you love. That's prison.”